We’re going to use a lot of these types of charts ... strike three, with the only backwards K occurring on a borderline pitch. Here’s the problem: If you can locate the pitch just below the ...

Some may call that a feature, not a bug. After all, if an always-watching roboump calls a perfectly consistent strike zone pitch after pitch, wouldn’t that be better than asking an imperfect ...

For starters, if you look at Alex Chamberlain’s Pitch Leaderboard below, you can see that Cabrera has dropped his arm angle ...

It also has a great strike zone plot feature ... As you can see from Kyle Bland's pitch chart below, the changeup has over three inches more vertical drop and slightly more arm-side run.

In the context of the history of the strike zone in the era of pitch tracking ... That might look like a zone map for most starting pitchers, although that outside edge to righties stands out.

It also has a great strike zone plot feature ... You can see on the pitch chart below how the slider (purple) and sweeper (pink) approach the batter at similar angles and have only slightly ...

As you can see from his pitch plot from his last start against the Pirates (chart courtesy of Kyle Bland at Pitcher List), Rea has plenty of pitches that can attack all areas of the strike zone ...

Pete Crow-Armstrong has called his ability to hit pitches that drop below the strike zone both a blessing and a curse. When ...

Editor’s note: A previous version of this article and an accompanying chart misstated ... If an umpire calls a pitch a strike that misses the plate but hits that buffer zone, the buffer means ...

NEW YORK -- The robot strike zone will get slightly bigger at Triple-A starting Tuesday in an attempt to make it better reflect individual batters rather than averages, and the pitch clock will be ...

Torres called the offspeed pitch a strike, putting Chisholm down 0-1 in the count. Carlos Torres calls a pitch well outside the zone a strike on Jazz Chisholm. Chisholm would ground out to second ...